My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
Before you start production, you have characters you have created without actors in mind, then all of a sudden you've got actors.… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by mankind. I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
If people I've never met or don't know say that what I've written or done or said means anything to them, then… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. In addition,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos.… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
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I was driven, as have been many writers, both by a repulsion of the childhood home's narrow confines and a desire to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone. — Natalie Massenet Copy Share Image
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An empty book is like an Infant's soul, in which anything may be written, — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
One of the humbling things about having written more than one novel is the sense that every time you begin, that new… — John Irving Copy Share Image
All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper. — Beth Nielsen Chapman Copy Share Image
[There is] one distinctly human thing - the story. There can be as good science about a turnip as about a man.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or, if this way of putting… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
If you're writing a song, you have to write something that can be understood serially. When you're reading a poem that's written… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first… — Beck Copy Share Image
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